Interesting. We have 3 receivers for DISH. One of those we move from the house to the camper. Sometimes it's not plugged in for quite a while. We've never had to call DISH to reactivate it. Now, when we had Direct TV, we were calling ALL the time!
The people who installed our DISH also sold us a second "dish" and tripod for the camper and told us to simply use one of the receivers in the house. We've learned we can take it anywhere. But outside our local geographical area, the local stations don't come in. But there's still enough variety, it's well worth it to take it with us.
If I wanted to take the tripod-dish-receiver and coax-cable and run it in my sisters house, I could do that as long as I'm paying the bill for that receiver! Who cares who uses it!
If you are currently using a satellite system, stick with it. Cable is designed for a permanently fixed location.
